Today’s Headlines
Get Comfortable, the Road to a Spill Bill Could Be a Long One (NYT) Poll: Concern About the Environment on the Rise (The Hill) As Global Weirding Mucks With Weather, Greens Push Senators For a Real Climate Bill (HuffPo, NYT) Amtrak On Pace to Break Ridership Record (WVNS) Bill Requires High-Speed Rail Bidders to Reveal … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
9:25 AM EDT on August 13, 2010
- Get Comfortable, the Road to a Spill Bill Could Be a Long One (NYT)
- Poll: Concern About the Environment on the Rise (The Hill)
- As Global Weirding Mucks With Weather, Greens Push Senators For a Real Climate Bill (HuffPo, NYT)
- Amtrak On Pace to Break Ridership Record (WVNS)
- Bill Requires High-Speed Rail Bidders to Reveal Holocaust Involvement (AP)
- States Get Tougher on Drunk Driving With Ignition Interlocks (WSJ)
- Parsons Brinckerhoff Releases Design Guidelines for Complete Streets (Architecture & Design)
- Wow, Take a Look at These SF Transit Center Drawings (Inhabit)
- NRDC Asks: What Does “Smart Growth” Mean to You?
- Bike-Sharing — Not This Type — on the Way in DC (WaPo)
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